Parthenocissus tricuspidata

Dreispitzige Woodbine (Parthenocissus tricuspidata )

The Dreispitzige Woodbine (Parthenocissus tricuspidata ), often Trifoliate or trilobal Woodbine and like other similar types Wilder called wine, is a plant of the family grapevine family ( Vitaceae ). Some varieties are used for facade greening. Rare Trivial names are also trilobal Boston ivy, Veitschrebe, Veitschii or wall cat. The Artepipheton tricuspidata means tricuspid and derives from the Latin tri = three and cuspidatus = tapered off.

Features

The Dreispitzige Woodbine is a deciduous climbing shrub and can on vertical walls or walls reach a height of over 20 meters. The individual vines are about two to three centimeters long and have six to ten holdfasts that attach the plant to the substrate.

The leaves are mostly three-lobed and rarely undivided. The individual lobes are pointed and coarsely toothed. The long -stalked leaves are 10 to 20 inches long. The upper side of the leaf blade is shiny and bald, under hand, these are dull green and merely pointing to the leaf veins a sparse pubescence on. The leaf color is during the first sprouting reddish green to bronze, then yellow orange scarlet in the autumn to intense.

In the heyday of July-August are many flowers in umbrella- terminal or axillary on wenigblättrigen short shoots. The greenish tinted flowers are small and inconspicuous.

The blue-black berries ripen in October and have a diameter of up to 8 millimeters. The fruits are inedible for humans.

Location and distribution

The Dreispitzige creeper is native to Japan, China and Korea and thrives there in Auengebüschen, riverine trees and moist mixed mountain forests.

Some varieties are used for wall greening and thrive even in large cities. Only rarely run wild this way, although the, plentiful fruits are eaten by songbirds like.

History

This species was brought before 1867 in the Netherlands and described tricuspidata by Philipp Franz von Siebold and Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini as Ampelopsis.

John Gould Veitch, too, who visited Japan in 1860, sent plants and seeds to England. There, the specimens were regarded as a separate species Ampelopsis veitchii, apply today but only as a sort of multiform P. tricuspidata. Since 1868 this plant was sold as seller of the horticultural company Veitch and Sons in Exeter.